THE NEXT STEP 



1919 




1920 



c^*&Ut STATE TRADE SCHOOL^^™^^ 

SOUTH MANCHESTER - - CONNECTICUT 



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THE BOY 



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w^ HO has arrived at the age of fourteen or who has graduated 
Vjy from the grammar school is confronted with the question as 
to what will be his "next step." Will he go to High School, 
seek employment or learn a trade? 
The State Trade School of South Manchester offers to the grammar 
school graduate a cooperative High School-Trade School course, and 
to any hoy who is fourteen years old or over, a full-time course, in 
any of the following trades: m ^ * r\ 

.'for 21 1919 



Trades Taught 






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ACHINE Work, including Tool Making, 
Drafting, Mechanical and Architectural 
Carpentry and Cabinet Making 
Electrical Work 
le Manufacturing r open to both ) 
lical Clerical Textile 1 boys and girls I 


Period 4800 hours 
Period 48 00 hours 
Period 48 00 hours 
Period 4800 hours 
Period 2400 hours 
Period 2400 hours 


Texti 
Techi 


Twenty-five per cent, of the training period is given to drafting and 
academic studies relating to the particular trade. 


The work given to the student is entirely of a practical nature, the 
product being the same as he might be calle'd upon to produce were 
he employed at his chosen trade. 


TUITION FREE— E^TER ANY 


TIME 



THIS COURSE 

TRAINS BOYS 

TO BE 

MECHANICAL 

OR 

ARCHITECTURAL 

DRAFTSMEN 




DRAFTING AND DESIGNING 



Drafting 



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N the drafting department instruction is given in the planning 
of work for all departments. By rapid stages, the boys pro- 
gress thru the elements of geometrical and mechanical draw- 
ing, free hand sketches and projections to the production of 
intelligent working drawings. They are taught tracing, blue-printing 
and Van Dyke work; assembly drawing from detail sketches; calcu- 
lation and layout of spur and bevel gears, worm and worm wheels, 
plate and cylindrical cams, power transmission mechanisms; design 
of jigs, fixtures, blanking dies, cutter heads, other small tools, power 
machines; also suitability, cost and availability of materials. 

Drawing is especially adapted as applied to the various trades 
taught. 

All regular drafting apprentices must work a sufficient length of 
time in the shop to acquire a knowledge of design and manufacturing 
processes. 



THEY LEARN 

ALSO 

TOOLMAKING 

OXY-ACETYLENE 

WELDING 

AND CUTTING, 

AND 

AUTO-REPAIRING 

ALL ON 

PRODUCTION 

WORK 




GEAR CUTTING ON A MILLING MACHINE 



Machine Work 



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HIS course trains boys to be machinists and tool makers. The 
machine shop produces standard power machines and small 
tools, the manufacture of which requires the use of lathe, 
shaper, planer, milling machines, universal grinder, drill 
presses, jigs and fixtures. Layout work and the making of jigs, fix- 
tures and tools is an important part of the student's training. Each 
apprentice is taught to forge lathe, shaper, and planer tools, and to 
harden and temper same. 

Machine shop graduates are also fitted to accept positions in factor- 
ies as mechanical draftsmen, their knowledge of mathematics, free 
hand and mechanical drawing and the making of blue prints, together 
with their machine shop training as a basis, making them particularly 
valuable men. 



BOYS ARE 
TAUGHT THIS 
TRADE 

"AS BIG AS 
A HOUSE" 




HOUSE No. 3 



Carpentry 



p— — lARPENTRY includes practical work in house planning and 
If I I building. Boys are trained in house framing, window and 
L~njJ door framing, outside and inside finish, stair building, and 
1111111 mill work, also in concrete form work and reinforced con- 
crete construction. Particular attention is given to the technical 
and mathematical side of house construction as well as to skill in 
workmanship. Compiling specifications and estimating are made 
an important feature in this course. A sufficient amount of cabinet 
making is given to train the boy in fine finish work. 

We emphasize the value of a close personal contact of student and 
instructor in this course as well as in all trade instruction. 



FOR THE BOY 
WHO LIKES 
ELECTRICITY 
AND HAS A 
GOOD MIND, 
THERE IS 
NO LIMIT TO 
HIS 
OPPORTUNITIES 




PRONY BRAKE TEST OF A 5 H. P. MOTOR 



Electrical Course 



C— —]HE Electrical Course is particularly attractive to boys of high 
school grade or equivalent and includes instruction and prac- 
. T __ tice in the following: 

BUfiCl Testing and Maintenance of Direct and Alternating Current 

Motors and Generators, Meters and Instruments, and of Transformers 
and Storage Batteries. 

Operation, care and testing of gas engines, including power con- 
sumption and efficiency tests. 

Interior wiring in houses, stores and factories. 

Installation, care and operation of electrical motors, generators, and 
switchboards. 

Study of distributing systems. 

Locating and repairing defects in electrical equipment. 

Theory and mathematics of Direct and Alternating Current elec- 
tricity. 

The department is provided with complete power equipment, elec- 
trical machinery and auxiliary apparatus. 



GRADUATES 
FROM THIS 
DEPARTMENT 
NEVER FAIL 
TO SECURE 
WELL PAID 
EMPLOYMENT 
THEY 
MAKE 
GOOD 




LOOM FIXING 



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Textile Manufacturing Course 

HIS department is finely equipped with all the necessary machin- 
ery for the preparation of raw silk, to the weaving of broad 
goods and narrow fabrics. This course includes instruction 
and practice in the following: 

Winding and doubling, twisting and reeling of raw silk, organzine, 
tram, spun silk and cotton. 

Warping and quilling, for broad goods and narrow fabrics. 

Elementary designing and weaving. 

Hand twisting with harness drafts ,and harness chain building. 

Designing and cloth analysis. 

Textile mathematics, drawing, study of materials and testing. 

This course is not intended to make mere machine operators, but 
to BUILD UP A BROAD FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE of the 
THEORY and PRACTICE in textile manufacturing, preparing the 
student for rapid advancement to well paid positions of higher re- 
sponsibility and usefulness. 



THE USE OF 

SLIDE RULE 

TRANSIT 

COMPTOMETER 

AND OTHER 

CALCULATING 

DEVICES 

IS TAUGHT 

BY ACTUAL 

PRACTICE 




SHOP MATHEMATICS CLASS 



Shop Mathematics 



I"— "IN this department Shop Mathematics is dealt with as a POWER 
supported by a column of practical and efficient instruction 
— tbk and positively geared hack to the work for the purpose of 
££229 turning out an accurate product. The related problems in- 
volving Arithmetic and such parts of Algebra, Geometry and Trigono- 
metry as are met with in the shops and drawing room, are assembled 
and solved under the direction of a trained and competent instructor, 
who gives his entire time to the work in conjunction with the shop 
instructors. 

The work begins in the shop on the job worked upon, thus supply- 
ing the mind with the correct mental image. By this means, the 
boy is taught to think in the terms of the thing he is calculating, and 
the problem takes on the "punch" that holds his interest. 



GYMNASIUM WORK 
SWIMMING 
BASKET BALL 
BASE BALL 
TRACK WORK 
FIELD DAY 
AND OTHER 
SPORTS ARE 
PROMOTED 
BY A WELL 
ORGANIZED 
ATHLETIC 
ASSOCIATION 





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